N100 is faster and more efficienct than any Ivy bridge E3. At idle the Xeon draws roughly 20W more, which works out to $30USD/year at the national average electricity prices. That gap widens as the load increases.
I can totally see why someone who doesnt need expandability would choose the cheap mini PC.
There is no feasible way for Pokémon Go to remain in a reasonably playable state after the servers shut down. I outlined my points here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44449575
If you're okay with games like Pokémon Go being harder or impossible to make, that's fine, but dont pretend like it's trivial for all game developers to meet the requirements in this petition.
That might be "the problem" for you, but that's not the problem as far as stop killing games is concerned. This petition is asking for games to remain in a reasonable playable state after the servers shutdown. No if, ands, or buts. Adding a "playable through" disclaimer changes nothing as far as this movement is concerned.
I agree that clearer language about what you are actually "buying" would be good for consumers, but it's tangential to Stop Killing Games.
The game has millions of pokestops, gyms, and players. A game of this scale CAN'T run on one server.
Even if you could host it on just one or a few machines, if you sign up for one server and your buddy joins another, you can't do raids or anything together. And each of these player hosted servers has a player limit.
Anti-cheat that isn't being actively updated is next to useless. Community servers would be botted to hell.
The game requires a maps tile service. Expecting Niantic to provide map tiles for anyone to download is insane. They might not even own the rights to do that.
It's virtually impossible for Pokémon go to remain in a "reasonably playable state" after the servers shutdown.
I don't know where you and other people in this thread are getting that idea from. That's not what the petition says, and that's definitely not what Ross Scott says in his videos.
The game that sparked this movement was shutdown 9 years after it came out, and had 3 months notice.
There are a lot of differences between storage formats. It would be incredibly difficult to create a universal query language. It would need to either a) change the storage formats so much that they're not really following their original standard, or b) create so many different versions of the query language that it's not really one standard.
Off the top of my head, SQL can't do lists as values, and doesn't have simple key-value storage. Json doesn't have tables, or primary keys / foreign keys, and can have nested data
I can totally see why someone who doesnt need expandability would choose the cheap mini PC.